AdvertisementWinter Olympics fashion has, largely, been a tale of two events: the opening and closing ceremonies, where national costume comes out to play; and figure skating, where the aesthetic swings and swoops from Vegas-on-ice to Vera Wang, with a touch of Broadway and Diaghilev thrown in. As of ...Read More

AdvertisementTalk about fighting for eyeballs. Squeezed in between the Super Bowl and the Oscars, competing with the Olympics for attention, the first fashion month of the post-Weinstein era may be easy to overlook.And yet, as the style circus moves from New York (where it begins on Thursday) to ...Read More

AdvertisementImaginary people play a surprisingly large role in fashion. Designers conjure them, retailers strategize for them, and we journalists try to put ourselves in their shoes. It’s not a rare feeling at a runway presentation to find oneself puzzling over who the consumer is that’s being pitched a ...Read More

A designer may appear on the runway for only 30 seconds at the end of a show, sometimes merely poking her head out from backstage to wave (Miuccia Prada, Phoebe Philo), sometimes doing a full catwalk canter (Michael Kors, Alexander Wang). Either way, they know people will be ...Read More

AdvertisementThere she goes, strutting that strut. Her outfit is arranged just so. She’s got the bag with the umpteen-person wait list, not yet available in stores. The cameras flash. It’s a fashion moment. It’s a watershed. It’s a marketing opportunity.It’s the 15-foot catwalk that runs from the hotel ...Read More

AdvertisementMiki Agrawal, the “She-E.O.” ousted from her menstrual-underwear company, Thinx, last year amid employee complaints of sexual harassment and fostering a toxic work environment, has pivoted to a venture that targets another intimate region of the body.Ms. Agrawal wants to do the most radical thing for derrière self-care ...Read More

AdvertisementIs the future of men’s wear nonbinary people?It is if the designers behind the indie label Krammer & Stoudt are to be believed. In just five seasons, Mike Rubin and Courtenay Nearburg, who are married, have proved themselves a pair worth watching. (Last month Mr. Rubin, 59, was ...Read More

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AdvertisementName Naomi WatanabeAge ArrayHometown Ibaraki Prefecture, about two hours northeast of Tokyo.Now Lives TokyoClaim to Fame With more than Array.6 million followers on Instagram, Ms. Watanabe is one of the most popular social media celebrities in Japan. She is an actress, comedian and fashion designer who is perhaps ...Read More

AdvertisementPrint headline: “The Stepford Channel,” published here in October 1992.The story: It was the ’90s and suddenly David Letterman and Jay Leno found themselves competing for eyeballs with the likes of Jay “the Juiceman” Kordich. The infomercial — that mind-numbing, long-form television commercial in which washed-up celebrities hawked ...Read More

AdvertisementJudy Long and Jim Scott understand the nature of winning streaks.Take their beloved Auburn University football team: On Dec. 1, the Tigers had won five in a row and were ranked No. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings. But a month later, Ms. Long and Mr. Scott ...Read More

AdvertisementHe told me he wanted to marry me in an old city by the sea.All day we had bicycled the cobbled streets of St. Augustine, Fla., a town once invaded by conquistadors. Now the Spanish buildings stood crumbling but beautiful along the water. We had been drinking, which ...Read More

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